Skip to main content

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Preferred term

Morton H. Fried  

Definition

  • The highly influential writings of American anthropologist Morton H. Fried have made key contributions to explaining the origins of the state and its attendant modes of social stratification. Fried devised an evolutionary framework to describe the basic processes that account for general similarities in independent sequences of cultural complexity. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Fried, Morton H. (1923–1986)]

Belongs to group

URI

https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Morton_H._Fried

Download this concept: